Pompeia

[ pom-pee-uh, -pey-uh ]

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noun

flourished 1st century b.c., second wife of Julius Caesar, divorced in 62 b.c. Compare Calpurnia, Cornelia ( def 2 ).

Her name was Pompeia, He divorced Pompeia about this time, under very extraordinary circumstances.

Pompeia Paulina, a young and very noble Roman lady, had married Seneca in his extreme old age.

Finding the door open, he was safely let in by a female slave who was in the secret, and who forthwith ran off to tell Pompeia.

Csar's second wife was Pompeia, the granddaughter of Sylla, whose family Aurelia had but little cause to love.

In the Via Pompeia is an early Renaissance house with fine decorations in marble and terra-cotta.

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